While 3D Realms may have recently bit the dust, Croteam wants to remind us all that Serious Sam 3 is still happening. In an update on the company's Web site, we're told that the gang is "pretty close in signing the publishing deal."
As for the military game Croteam was working on, "development was halted some time ago by investors and publishers." The developer was "doing a 'work-for-hire' development there, so after the game was put on hold, there was nothing more to do" and the studio "moved back to [its] projects."
Croteam CEO Roman Ribaric goes on to say that "Obviously, the above also means that our next title won't be published by Gamecock, as contrary to last year's published press release by Gamecock."
Here's hoping we hear more about the next Serious Sam around E3 time, which is rapidly approaching. Even if we don't, I'll settle for some more details on any of the team's other projects.
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Best line ever.
Serious Sam 3 to become Serious Sam Forever?
How they're going to pull that one off is beyond me.
They also advertised "water physics"... I think it's only cosmetical.
@KaliKot: Yeah, pretty much. Which rocks the house. Vast waves of enemies flying at you from all directions, with different gimmicks (rotating cylindrical rooms, etc.) to keep you guessing.
This game is still, in my mind, the most fidelious spiritual successor to the original DOOM: Shooting away at enemies with impossibly manly weapons of mass destruction, and always running out of health before running out of ammo. The plot was the glue that held the game together, just like in Tony Jaa movies (A string of awesome fight scenes and choreographic sequences loosely held together with some bit of plot right up to the end, where the broken bodies of myriad nameless redshirts litter the ground when Tony goes Super-Sayan-lvl256-Kiiiiiiing Combo on them with elephant-bone tonfas). And that's how these games should be: Unbridled killin' and shoot'nin with ridiculously-over-the-top weaponry and one-liners up the gazoo.
They need to make some kind of Ash-Sam-Duke mega-entity.
It was the best 10 bucks I ever spent on a game.
Also Serious Sam games are way better than Duke Nukem games anyway.
Duke Nukem has semi-nude woman , Serious Sam has exploding disproportionally big heads; the difference is striking .
@dan city
Project Manhatan is better than SS games , but all the other duke games are kinda poor ....
I have to agree with you, the gritty look doesn't suit Sam well at all. I'm still hyped for this game though. I love FPSs with old school sensibilities.
Is it multiplatform?
Is it only for the PC?
What's happening?